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  50 Things Advice for the class of 2010.

  

  drop by the blogs from time to time and say hi). As you begin your ... journal in taking you back to your favorite moments. Take naps in the ... in your life when you can. If you write your best papers the night

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 23, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  An Open Letter to MIT Applicants Don’t Panic (and know where your towel is)

  

  wanted to study in college, and all of a sudden it was all very REAL. I ... ’m not trying to insult you if you do/did participate in the College ... towards the college search process. I hoped to get in somewhere, but I

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 2, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Leaving How I ended up taking medical leave as a sophomore

  

  struggling to do so in a way that’s pretty and poetic, that will stick in ... ’s worth a read.) I’ve started three other aborted blog posts trying to ... triggered the chemical switch in my brain to flip. There was the chemistry

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • March 8, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Ten days of live-action roleplaying no joke, there i was…

  

  people. Such ten-days have been written about in the blogs before, like in ... joined: in 2020 no one ran one, and in 2021 and 2022 no ten-days ran due to ... spot of joy in an otherwise dark winter. As much as I want to, I don

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 19, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Midsemester Night’s Dream Technically an All-Nighter's Dream, but hey, close enough

  

  I’ve decided to continue a long chain of poor decisions by starting to write this post at 5:38 AM. In front of me is an empty Pringles can and some iced tea, to my right is a notebook full of vectors and

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 6, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Reading aka inhaling all the books i can before school starts

  

  writing phase in middle and high school. I eventually moved on to RPG video ... I ran out of time to read at all, let alone in Japanese. I ... gap semester in senior year, and that gap semester happened to be in

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Mountain Climbing Team i'M GrADduATingG WAOooOOOoo

  

  isn't the piece of paper, but the lifelong ties to the people who I grew ... that wanted to do good in the world. The past few years, I've been ... ideas are as fluid as electrons in an E-­field, motivating me to learn how

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 6, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Steady-state Equilibrium Featuring screaming as stress relief

  

  semester. Usually I know better than to take six classes in a semester. But ... ’t come to MIT to relax or even to hang out. I came here to learn, and in ... it very easy to get lost in a sea of exams and to forget why I came

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT and Black Greek Letter Organizations An Interview

  

  MIT sororities since most are majority white and Asian. In the middle is ... at her church who were. She started to learn more about D9s in middle ... decide whether or not they’d like to live in a fraternity. It’s also a

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 13, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hard MIT Class ...or is that redundant? And yes, hiiiiii.

  

  light, or learned how to in bruised capacities. But even then, there was ... problem your friend figured out in the time it took him to pee. You sit in ... that we had only two goals for the rest of the semester—to have fun in

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 10, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Fig. 6: Eigenverantwortung The time of my life. What responsibilities?

  

  in the mail, but now you have to send in your passport to the Swiss ... you're going to do, like have someone still in Boston mail it to you ... fail, so scramble to visit the nearest Bank of America to have it done in

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • August 28, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  22 Tales from tEp strange sights and stranger delights

  

  in MIT's graduate dormitories) in Boston/Cambridge, but want to live elsewhere in the summer. These people then sublet their space to students like ... -campus in a new neighborhood. Moreover, it would be an opportunity to get to

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 31, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  The College Essay: Yogurt Edition! You like froyo? I like froyo! ^___^V

  

  or may not be interested in what you have to say. With the college ... a lot in my peers back in the day when we were all applying to college ... " by trying to use all of these advanced vocabulary in their essays. Not

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 11, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Show, Don’t Tell! (the College Essay, Pt. 2) My take on the MIT short essays.

  

  in the merits of the first blog in regards to a long college admissions ... which you are used to seeing in print. (ii) Never use a long word where ... once upon a time, I wrote a blog comparing the college essay to froyo

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 23, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  10 Things I Learned 1st Semester Yeap.

  

  Say hello to the holidays and winter break!!! Now, sitting at home in ... -yogurt-more-endearingly-“Froyo”. I can’t count how many “Ordering Indian in 10! Come to Room # if you ... email that the professor processes in 5 seconds… So what I tried to do is

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 24, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Bleary-eyed Some thoughts and reflections on this year's admission cycle - particularly for those not admitted.

  

  , suitcases) full of paper folders back and forth from the office to read them ... side, this meant that in addition to the ~12 hours a day I already spend ... ) that I got home, laid down in bed, and tears just started to flow. They

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 16, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking the L On "failure" at a place like MIT.

  

  kids with adequate calc experience in high school take this to brush up ... in IAP]. I got recommended 18.01 and 8.01L, but that had to be a ... .01 met in a large conference room next to the [annotation note="It's a

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 16, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21 Firsts highlight reels from the last few years, as I prepare to say goodbye

  

  , to study at MIT. In 2017, this ongoing chapter of my life promises to ... clothesline in the backyard to dry in the sun over the course of days. Rainy ... . This crystallized an informal rule in my mind: I could always expect to

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 8, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  This Blog Post is a Bad Idea Not blogging for several months... that was also a Bad Idea.

  

  I knew there was going to be a problem when I was one of only two girls sitting at the table. Sarah R., '14, and I sat next to each other in ... foolhardy enough to enter the Bad Ideas Wings Eating Contest... and was it

  • by Kate R. '14
  • January 27, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT And/As Marathon doing things that are hard

  

  try to snag the one solo seat, all the way in the back and to the left ... third time I have tried to write this blog post sharing what MIT taught me ... first paper to Jeff Ravel, a historian of media and social change. It was

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2016